Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
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Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water